{"id":1282,"date":"2020-05-04T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/05\/04\/3989447-how-to-restore-a-wordpress-website-from-backups-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:02:47","slug":"3989447-how-to-restore-a-wordpress-website-from-backups-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/3989447-how-to-restore-a-wordpress-website-from-backups-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Restore a WordPress Website From Backups in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">If you have a WordPress website and wish to roll it back to a previous date, you can easily do it with <b>Restore Website<\/b>! It will restore both the files and database to a date of your choosing.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To start the process, go to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> &rarr; Websites list &rarr; Dashboard.<\/b><\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/05\/0be35ec6-b596-4518-8293-f4459c38c096.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4886\" alt=\"Hostinger Websites list highlighted in sidebar, pointing to website dashboard\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Then search for <b>Backups<\/b> on the sidebar and click on it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/05\/8538e03e-5abb-4767-8dcc-701f6fe27e22.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger hPanel sidebar with Backups highlighted under Files\" width=\"250\" data-media-id=\"4888\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Once on the <b>Backups<\/b> sections of your panel, select <b>Restore and Download<\/b> tab. Under <b>Files backup<\/b>, select your preferred date and click <b>Restore Files<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/05\/d9f9feb0-704b-4cc6-9428-729ae7af6d42.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4890\" alt=\"Hostinger backups page with Restore files button highlighted in Restore and download tab\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once you&rsquo;re good to go, a pop-up will emerge with a message regarding data overwrite. If you&rsquo;re ready to replace the current website, check the box and click <b>Restore<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/05\/74a680e3-2341-486c-b3f4-052da07c7b55.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger backup restore dialog with the Restore button highlighted\" width=\"500\" data-media-id=\"4891\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the files restoration is complete, repeat the same steps under <b>Database backup<\/b>. You&rsquo;ll be shown a dropdown to enter your database name. If you&rsquo;re unsure about your database name, check out our guide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/how-to-find-wordpress-database-name\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">How to Find Your WordPress Database<\/a>. <br>&#8203;<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/05\/f382df2f-eea9-4785-ab3f-f713756b6cd3.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4893\" alt=\"Hostinger backups page with the Restore database button highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">After a few minutes -depending on the size of your website- the files and database will be restored to the selected date. The restoration will continue in the background even if the browser tab is minimized or closed. Check the status in the <b>Restore History <\/b>tab to view progress.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If your website is created using a <b>different CMS<\/b>, you will get a &ldquo;No backups found&rdquo; message<b>. <\/b>Also,<b> <\/b>if your WordPress website is on a <b>subdomain<\/b>, the Restore button might display a &ldquo;Restore website is coming soon&rdquo; message. <br>In these cases, you can restore the files and database separately by following these steps: <b><a href=\"\/support\/4283700-how-to-restore-backups-at-hostinger#h_a6a8254045\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Restore Specific Websites or Subdomains from Backups at Hostinger<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Restore Website feature to automatically restore WordPress sites at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backups-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/3989447-how-to-restore-a-wordpress-website-from-backups-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/3989447-como-restaurar-wordpress-desde-las-copias-de-seguridad-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/3989447-comment-restaurer-un-site-web-wordpress-a-partir-d-une-sauvegarde-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/3989447-cara-restore-website-wordpress-dari-backup-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/3989447-kaip-atkurti-atsargines-wordpress-svetaines-kopijas-hostinger-platformoje\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/3989447-como-restaurar-um-backup-de-um-site-wordpress-na-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/3989447----wordpress---\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}